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Montagu C. Butler is the first to raise Esperanto-speaking children.
The Islands ' highest point is Mount Belinda () on Montagu Island.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to Ottoman Constantinople, is widely credited with introducing the process to Great Britain in 1721.
The sandwich is the namesake of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.
It is said that he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and because Montagu also happened to be the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, others began to order " the same as Sandwich!
The town's connection with the snack of the same name is that John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who lived in the 18th century allegedly invented it.
In 1912, Asquith fell in love with Venetia Stanley, and his romantic obsession with her continued into 1915, when she married Edwin Montagu, a Liberal Cabinet Minister ; a volume of Asquith's letters to Venetia, often written during Cabinet meetings and describing political business in some detail, has been published ; but it is not known whether or not their relationship was sexually consummated.
The British Museum, which first opened to the public in 1759 in Montagu House, is at the heart of Bloomsbury.
The programme itself is not presented as a documentary, but during the in-character commentary on the DVD release, Alan explains that it is in fact a " post-documentary "; all the events depicted in the series took place, but everyone in the show, apart from himself and his personal assistant Lynn Benfield ( played by Felicity Montagu ), were actors hired to portray them " after they had actually occurred ".
Anthropologist Ashley Montagu wrote in 1988 that for some Mongoloids the " nose is flatter at the root ( the miscalled bridge ) and the slight fold of skin over the median part of the eye, the Epicanthic fold, is preserved.
The National Motor Museum ( originally the Montagu Motor Museum ) is a museum in the village of Beaulieu, set in the heart of the New Forest, in the English county of Hampshire.
In a famous exchange with John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, where the latter exclaimed, " Sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox ," Wilkes is reported to have replied, " That depends, my lord, on whether I embrace your lordship's principles or your mistress.
He is the son of Hugh Henry Montagu Stanley, younger brother of the 18th Earl.
The early interest in observing birds for their aesthetic rather than utilitarian ( mainly food ) value is traced to the late-18th century in the works of Gilbert White, Thomas Bewick, George Montagu and John Clare.
The Montagu Butler Library is one of the world ’ s major collections in and about Esperanto, having 4433 items in its detailed catalogue.
It is named after Montagu C. Butler, author of a number of works including Step by Step in Esperanto and the comprehensive Esperanto-English Dictionary.
However, in April 2001, due to the cost of maintaining the building, the offices were relocated to a converted outhouse at the Wedgwood Memorial College, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where they remain today, and where one of the largest and most important collections of material in and about Esperanto is to be found in the Montagu Butler Library.
A route through the underground chambers proceeds, from the Entrance Hall, to the Steward's Chamber and Whitehead's Cave, through Lord Sandwich's Circle ( named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich ), Franklin's Cave ( named after Benjamin Franklin, a friend of Dashwood who visited West Wycombe ), the Banqueting Hall ( allegedly the largest man-made chalk cavern in the world ), the Triangle, to the Miner's Cave ; and finally, across a subterranean river named the Styx, lies the final cave, the Inner Temple, where the meetings of the Hellfire Club were held, and which is said to lie 300 feet ( 90 metres ) directly beneath the church on top of West Wycombe hill.
The heir apparent is the present holder's son Luke Timothy Charles Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke ( b. 5 December 1969 ).
He is the elder son of John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich by his wife Caroline Hayman.
The 18th-century English aristocrat John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich is most renowned for the claim to have originated the modern concept of the sandwich which was named after him.
It is said that he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and because Montagu also happened to be the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, others began to order " the same as Sandwich !".
The 18th century phrase " When God created the human race, he made men, women and Herveys " is attributed variously to French philosopher Voltaire and to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Montagu and remembered
* Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ( 1689-1762 ), was a cousin of the Pierrepont family, best remembered for bringing the concept of inoculation against smallpox to the attention of the British public.
The name Montagu is remembered in Edmonton at Montagu Rd, Montagu Gardens, Montagu Crescent, Montagu Road School ( demolished ) and Swaythling Close.

Montagu and for
The body of trustees decided on a converted 17th-century mansion, Montagu House, as a location for the museum, which it bought from the Montagu family for £ 20, 000.
With the acquisition of Montagu House the first exhibition galleries and reading room for scholars opened on 15 January 1759.
Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.
These changes came about partly as the result of the urgings of Edwin Samuel Montagu, an influential anti-Zionist Jew and secretary of state for India, who was concerned that the declaration without those changes could result in increased anti-Semitic persecution.
* 1656-In a letter to Councillor General Montagu ( afterwards Earl of Sandwich ), General-at-sea and one of the Protector's personal friends, Cromwell mentioned the necessity of securing a permanent base at the entry of the Mediterranean, preferably Gibraltar ( the first suggestion for the occupation of Gibraltar as a naval base had been made at an English Council of War held at sea on 20 October 1625 ).
The objects were soon discovered to be too heavy for the floors of Montagu House ( the original building of The British Museum ), and they were transferred to a new extension that was built onto the mansion.
* 1709: Of the fair sex ... my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them — Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters to Mrs Wortley lxvi 108.
* Austen Chamberlain ( to 1917 ), and then Edwin Samuel Montagu – Secretary of State for India
Edward's army made rapidly for London, pursued by Warwick and Montagu.
Panelists for the seminar were Kerouac, James A. Wechsler, Princeton anthropologist Ashley Montagu, and author Kingsley Amis.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London, where he was noticed by Ivor Montagu, Alfred Hitchcock's associate producer for The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), who reminded the director about Lorre's performance in M. They first considered him to play the assassin in the film, but wanted to use him in a larger role, despite his limited command of English, which Lorre overcame by learning much of his part phonetically.
Her first son, Henry Pole, was created Baron Montagu, another of the Neville titles ; he spoke for the family in the House of Lords.
The title Earl of Sandwich was created in 1660 for the prominent naval commander Admiral Sir Edward Montagu.
Nevertheless the damage incurred — including the death of Admiral Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich — was so extensive that the Allies would be prevented from executing major naval actions for the rest of the season, apart from a failed attempt to intercept the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) Return Fleet from the Dutch East Indies.
He had been a staunch public supporter of Lord Edward Montagu and his lover Peter Wildeblood after the two were jailed for breaking anti-gay laws in the early 1950s, and visited them regularly in prison.
Dryden, Lord Somers and Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax took an interest in Addison's work and obtained for him a pension of £ 300 to enable him travel to Europe with a view to diplomatic employment, all the time writing and studying politics.
" He continued, " I have never mentioned the boy's name except to Probyn, Montagu and Knollys when they were acting for me and I thought they ought to know.
He acted as electoral agent for Samuel Montagu in Whitechapel at the General Election of 1886, and for Jane Cobden, who stood for election to the London County Council as a Liberal candidate in 1889.

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